It must be a southern thing. I was never stopped at a road block by police until I moved to the Southeast region. Road blocks to check licenses, registration and insurance are the normal down here.
To be honest, if it were a road block or something it wouldn't be as bad.
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Now that I'm traveling quite a bit, I've decided that I am not a fan at all. It would be very nice to be able to travel I 10 unmolested. That is all.
That has got to be frustrating. Guess you have need of patience??? J/K
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I would have to say that race is absolutely the overriding reason. I'm getting to the age where you can no longer even say that it is a combination of age and race. On this trip I was driving an Elantra... not some extravagant "drug car". I honestly cannot think of any other reason.
What is their motive, do you think? What are they hoping to achieve?
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My wife was profiled in a tourist store at Carolina beach, man kept looking at her to see if she would steal somehting. I wish I would have caught on sooner so I could have some words of inspiration for him.
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It's profiling and it's the south, period. I would be extremely surprised if you got it from Houston to Beaumont in Texas but after you hit the LA border you're sunk. We were in LA on a camping trip when someone knocked on the RV door at 2 am to tell us 'the coons have gone crazy and are killin' people and y'all need to vacate" my very Caucasian husband opened the door and stepped outside to not wake all of us.
I was still half asleep when he came back in and said 'Honey Racoons can kill chickens but not people they aren't big enough'. Me being from California and Don from Texas he translated the southern speak for me to say the fellow meant that there were racial problems in the area and we weren't safe. Since our family contains just about as many races as one can have we felt we'd probably be in trouble no matter which side showed up and packed our stuff up in the middle of the night and left.
They obviously pick their law enforcement folks from the same gene pools. So sorry.
Don't know how much time you spend in Texas but if you can get a CHL it's just about a free pass here with law enforcement. I've been stopped a few times, I hand over my DL and my CHL (which lets them know you've already been run seven ways to Sunday through the FBI) and they hand them back and say 'have a nice day ma'am'.
I would have to say that race is absolutely the overriding reason. I'm getting to the age where you can no longer even say that it is a combination of age and race. On this trip I was driving an Elantra... not some extravagant "drug car". I honestly cannot think of any other reason.
You sure it wasn't the "I HATE COPS" bumper sticker?
Sorry, that was stupid. I'm with you: profiling is asinine, and needs to stop. Is there any hope? I dunno.
BTW, I live near a county in TX that is famous for its racist sheriff deputies. My son spent a night in their jail (possession), and man, he's got stories. They treated him OK, but there was nothing but cruelty for another fellow who was Mexican. It's a sad state of affairs.
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Profiling in it's self, I have no issue with. It is a valid and proven mode of prevention of crime, just ask El Al Airlines, or the many interstate drug task force teams that make successful busts. HOWEVER, this like any other legitimate tool of crime prevention can be, and probably in your case, has been abused.
Believe me, if our country was stricken with a huge onslaught of missing little debbie cakes from convenient stores all across the the nation, and the top offenders were fat, bald, white guys..... well, then I would suspect that every time an officer sees me, I'm gonna get profiled.
We have to be honest about the statistics about interstate drug crimes, and the profile of that offender. Profiling is smart... Not when it's abused!!!! Let me make that point clear, so I'm not taken out of context, but when done properly, profiling is legitimate.
SIDEBAR: Our airlines should actually promote more profiling. Last time I checked it wasn't any 80 year Baptist old grannies, or 3 year old kids in wheelchairs that were trying to blow planes out of the sky. It's been middle eastern, Muslim, young men, that have traveled frequently to the middle east. We should be PROFILING here!!!!!
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